[axbmcuser]

Now online for Kodi 17  (Kodi 18+ will follow as announced):

- A Confluence ZEITGEIST (KODI 17)   3.6.0

- Cinema Helper (KODI 17+18)   1.1.0 (Python 2)
- ListItem Helper (KODI 17+18)   0.4.0 (Python 2)
- Duration Helper (KODI 17+18)   1.1.0 (Python 2)
- Library Data Provider Lite (KODI 17+18)   0.4.0 (Python 2)
- axbmcuser REPO   1.2.0


Changelog: (version numbers vary for different Kodi versions)

Code:

3.6.0 (2023-08-12)

- Good bye rectangular visuals
Major visual rework of the skin carefully replacing virtually all rectangular corners with rounded corners of different radii

- Major rework of all skin xml files to be native 1080p code
After Original Confluence tradionally being 720p xml code for the last decade, A Confluence ZEITGEIST has now switched to 1920x1080px xml code

The skin already used sharp textures up to 4K before, but this change helps with more sharp button borders and allows for more pixel perfect positioning of elements because there is no *1.5 multiplier in place anymore.
Also this change opended the possibility for long planned further sharp visual improvements which are now already incorporated into the wall view rework.
UI scaling to 4K/2160p is also great now due to the scaling multiplier being *2.0

- Global visual improvements and major rework of the Wall Views
Wall Views now feature a squared sub-variant for visually pleasing usage of sections like addons, pictures, music and more
Including, but not limited to the following further improvements:
- Reworked Home screen to be more simplistic by default
- Reworked main menu visuals with all icons reworked based on vector source material
- Reduced CommonWindowHeader and it's PVR variant by removing sections root level navigation clutter
- Improved progress bar visual for different views
- Added non-intrusive focus animations for some elements for a more intuitive user experience which now feels better than before
- Added better support for "Music videos" content type with cohesive CommonWindowHeader icons when opening this section via Videos or Music respectively
- Reworked or recreated countless textures and icons including new icons for "End time", "Settings level" and many more

- Major rework of the "Always force Preset Views" feature
All relevant types of windows/content now can be preset and customized for a further improved out-of-the-box experience
Also added a feature to reset the default preset view IDs "[RESET] all above View IDs to Default"

- Added new View type "Songs" which is now the default view for music song containers

- New mouse pointer visuals
- Removed blue tint from "Hexagons Advanced" base layer background variants
- New addon icon and addon fanart (based on the new default background)
- Added backgrounds/mood_background_default2.png for use with new DialogAddonInfo dialog mood background visuals (anti banding dithered gradient)
- Changed OverlayWatching texture variants to be horizontally mirrored (makes more sense visually in regards to what the icon wants to show in it's meaning)

- Reworked DialogSettings slider bars
- Replaced convert tabulator "&#x9" with regular tab (converted string resulted from use of the Kodi Skinning Tool when it did some help on the skin resolution conversion)

[SmartPlaylistEditor]
- Added scrollbar for search rules (invisible if no scrolling needed)
- Changed style for rules listing buttons: "Add", "Remove" and "Edit"
- Moved down section "Playlist options" by some pixels because sections were too close to each other visually


- PVR ChannelGuide: Header "Guide - ChannelName" (optional with prefix " - ") before: prefix always there even if no value

- Moved down legacy view "Media Info" fanart to be visually flush (movies/tvshows/episodes) (tbc)

- Slightly updated "Special Lists", added one new Special List "episodes_by_recently_played.xsp"

- Added many new stock backgrounds/wallpapers with the new default being "Frosted Glass /Light Colors" which replaces the previous default "Polygons /Grey"

List of new backgrounds/wallpapers:

Frosted Glass /Light Colors (New Default)
Frosted Glass /Rainbow
Frosted Glass /Sunrise
Frosted Glass /Silver
Frosted Glass /Blue Sea
Frosted Glass /Forest
Cinema /Red Curtain


- Added new Skin Settings option "[RESET] all skin settings to default"

- Added new Videos section sidebar feature "Hide Video Ratings" which hides all ratings from all modern views (Fanart + Wall Views)

- [Custom_1107_SearchDialog] Added support for "Global Search" addon within this dialog. Also some minor improvements to the visuals of this dialog have been made.
- [Custom_1185_WelcomeNewVersion] Added dialog with welcome dialog which shows a small notification one time after every version update

- [DialogAddonInfo] Visual rework and improvements including blurred mood backgrounds

- Multiple default focus improvements for edge situations where default focus could be lost due to complex navigation
- [DialogSettings] Added text header

- [DialogSubtitles] Major usability and visual rework of subtitle search dialog
- [DialogVideoInfo] Further improved Video Information Dialog

- [DialogVolumeBar] Reworked volume bar with more intuitive icons which show the amount of volume, also improved mute indicator

- Added "Total Seasons" below poster for "Seasons" view (based on workarounds to avoid some Kodi core issues which make this impossible using regular values)

- Reworked home screen PVR indicators for existing tv recording and timers activity and fixed a rare issue where the open and closed visual variant would cause overlapping when window is not reopened after a change

- [VideoOSDBookmarks] Improved panel position when content item count is lower than the full amount

- Reduced visual size of "rating stars" for Video Info Dialog and Fanart View